Ruto declared that his presidency was not ready to entertain the ‘handshake’ political relations which had been ushered into Kenyan politics by a Raila-Uhuru coalition in the last term of Kenyatta as President of Kenya. Moreover, in his inaugural speech as President, Dr. This Supreme Court ruling was against Raila Odinga’s wish and it was Ruto’s second triumph against the former Prime Minister of Kenya. He filed a case with the Supreme Court of Kenya which later declared that the results were not null and void. He rejected the electoral results as null and void. As usual, Raila was not convinced that he failed to make it into Presidency. There is an evident failure to accept reality that he, the entitled son of the former Vice President was defeated by William Ruto, a hitherto unknown son of a Peasant. Therefore, to save his face among his support base, amidst the difficulty of admitting that he has continued to lose elections, he has to continue to fan his support base to keep the hope alive. Reciprocally, the reverse is seemingly true that even his possible political successors like Kalonzo Musyoka have in the recent past declared Raila unreliable and undependable.

This is a big threat to Raila’s political legacy as he finds nobody to trust his political future with. Unfortunately, he does not have a successor to uphold his political interests both at a national level and in his former strongholds. There is no question that this is a signal of a diminishing political influence. Ruto in his fifth bid to become a President. But this loyalty came into question after he successfully lost to Dr. From his first time as a presidential candidate, his fellow Luo ethnic voters have been stuck with this man they affectionately refer to as “Baba”-meaning father. Raila Odinga has been the political Kingmaker in the western counties around Lake Victoria. Failure to create or identify a political successor.It is only by nature that he is becoming very old which may soon affect his energy to galvanize national appeal and support among the youth and his strongholds. Raila, having attempted to become President of Kenya five times, with none of his attempts being successful, each time alleging electoral fraud, is in the evening of his career as an active political participant in Kenyan politics. This has further created a traumatic experience on Raila which is worsened by a number of other factors outside his own control but which fundamentally affect his perceived historical injustice and personal entitlement to Presidency: It is at a political junction of this sense of entitlement and perceived historical injustice where Raila meets a curse in elections in which he has always participated as the ‘Best Man’ while the main actors assume the Presidency and serve. The latest and most shocking one being Dr. Like the father, he has been by-passed by people he does not believe possess a better political history than his. This sense of entitlement has reflected in his contesting for Presidency during elections in which he is not looking for majority vote, but to be simply endorsed as a matter of course. As a son to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga-the first post-independence Kenya’s Vice President, Raila believes that he has an automatic right to become the President of Kenya.

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